haṭha-luṭha-dala-ghiṣṭot-kaṇṭha-daṣṭoṣṭha-vidyut saṭa-śaṭha-kaṭhinoraḥ pīṭha-bhit-suṣṭhu-niṣṭhām | paṭhati nutava kaṇṭhādhiṣṭha ghorāntra-mālā daha daha narasiṃhāsahya-vīryāhitaṃ me ||
A verse from the Narasiṃha Stotra, deliberately built from dense retroflex consonant clusters (ṣṭ, ṇṭh, ṣṭh, ṭh...) as much as from its devotional content -- reciters traditionally use it to test articulation. Its refrain, 'daha daha narasiṃha asahya-vīrya-ahitaṃ me', is a fierce appeal to Narasiṃha -- lightning-eyed, jaw clenched in fury, wearing a garland of torn entrails -- to 'burn away' an unbearable, hostile force afflicting the devotee. (No single standard published translation was found for this particular verse; the gloss above is a best-effort reading, and it's included here chiefly to show off how cleanly the model articulates its brutal conjuncts.)
Syllable timings on this page are an estimate: derived from the chant's own guru/laghu (light/heavy syllable) prosody and scaled to this clip's real length, not a frame-exact forced alignment — so the highlight tracks the rhythm closely but may drift slightly from the exact syllable being sung. Each syllable is transliterated independently into Kannada, Devanāgarī, and IAST, matching the three-script display used elsewhere in the project.